Just some context: Samantha McVey was/is involved with the guy who kept pushing repositories with names like perl6-n_g_er (fully spelled out, of course) and commit messages like "Get a job, n_g_er". Just look at this juicy thread:
https://twitter.com/kraih/status/1408525949218570240
There was also a Slack log which corroborated what Sebastian had written about, and I don't know why I spent time to read it, but I have read it, and at the end I don't know why CAT even exists, what exact function it fulfills except for apparently being a SI unit of hypocrisy, and what a joke the whole thing (TPF and CAT both) is.
was.
Remove this hazard entirely. Make it easier to step away from an ugly thread.
This is a voluntary meritocracy, not a revolutionary committee for the eradication of hidden societal power structures. As such, the question of who to lynch today has no place in it.
Wanting to create a less toxic environment that welcomes people and getting rid of people that are hostile to that would be taking steps towards a true meritocracy.
For example, where's the merit in this: https://web.archive.org/web/20210625135404/https://git.tyil.... ?
China and Russia are laughing all the way to the bank while the baizuo bring down the rest of the world.
It was extended to have grants among other things.
Larry Wall has historically only really been influential on the design of the language. So it was not taken away, he just has rarely done anything outside of that.
